Modern Warfare: The Movie

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With Modern Warfare 2 showing at E3 this week, IGN has a stab at bringing its predecessor to the big screen.

By Orlando Parfitt

With Microsoft showing brand new footage from Modern Warfare 2 at E3 this week, it got us in the Entertainment Team thinking about how Infinity Ward's groundbreaking series of shooters might translate to the big screen.

Those who saw the truly spectacular trailer to MW 2 will have noticed how innately cinematic the franchise is, while it was also a reminder that the first instalment won plaudits not only for its immersive game play but also its narrative and character work as well (indeed it was honoured at this year's BAFTAs for both elements).

The first Modern Warfare saw you principally play as Sergeant "Soap" MacTavish - a green SAS recruit thrust into a brutal conflict between fascist paramilitary thugs The Ultranationalists and the free world. Lead by the evil Imran Zakhaev, they instigate a Civil War in Russia and a coup d'état in a fictional Middle Eastern country - all in the name of returning Russia to her former communist glory.

The reveal trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

The plot sets up a series of explosive and action packed missions that see you hop manically from firefight to firefight, taking out soldiers, dogs, tanks and helicopters as you go.

It certainly works with a controller in your hand, but could the character-driven manic brilliance of Modern Warfare translate to the big screen? We here at IGN think so. Here's our purely hypothetical pitch for a big screen, megabucks, franchise opening instalment of Modern Warfare: The Movie. And if any Hollywood bigwigs decide to use this idea, we want a producer's credit...